127,669 articles
Big Mac Index
The Big Mac Index, also called Burgernomics, is an informal measure published by The Economist since 1986 that compares Big Mac prices worldwide to judge currency valuation.
Big Nose Kate
Big Nose Kate (Mary Katherine Horony, Mária Katalin Horony, 1850–1940) was a Hungarian-born frontier dance hall woman and common-law wife of Doc Holliday; she implicated him in the 1881 Tombstone stage robbery, later married George Cummings, and died at the Arizona Pioneers' Home in Prescott.
Big Pharma conspiracy theories
Big Pharma conspiracy theories allege pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and politicians secretly conceal cures or falsify safety data for profit. Common claims include hidden cancer cures, microchipped vaccines, and preplanned pandemics; surveys and models document their prevalence and implausibility.
Big Sky Conference
Big Sky Conference, founded 1963 and named from A.B. Guthrie's novel The Big Sky, is an NCAA Division I FCS conference of 11 full members in seven western states, 16 sports, and 13 NCAA team championships, headquartered in Farmington, Utah.
Big South Conference
Big South Conference: NCAA Division I athletic conference founded August 21, 1983 in the southeastern US; nine members in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; 18 championship sports; football via the OVC-Big South Football Association.
Big Switch Networks
Big Switch Networks was a Santa Clara, California data-center networking startup founded in 2010 by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster, acquired by Arista Networks in 2020.
Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference founded in 1896 in Chicago; 18 member universities since 2024, 28 sponsored sports, $1.47 billion FY2025 revenue, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance research consortium.
Big tent
Big tent describes a political party built as a broad coalition of ideological factions and voter groups rather than one ideology. Also called the catch-all (Volkspartei) party; classic cases include the U.S. major parties, Canada's Liberals, and India's Congress.
Big Three (credit rating agencies)
The Big Three are Moody's, S&P Global Ratings, and Fitch Ratings, the three credit rating agencies that together issue roughly 97% of the world's credit ratings.
Big Three (World War II)
Big Three (World War II): Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, led by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, the Grand Alliance against the Axis, formalized by the January 1, 1942 Declaration by United Nations and dissolved into the Cold War after Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
Big Three television networks
The Big Three television networks were NBC, CBS, and ABC, which together drew over 90 percent of American TV audiences from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Big U
Big U is the nickname of Eugene Henley Jr., a Los Angeles music executive, community activist, and former Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips leader, indicted in 2025 on federal RICO charges.
Big W
Big W is an Australian discount department store chain owned by Woolworths Group, operating 178 stores that sell toys, home goods, apparel, and technology at everyday low prices.
Big Watt Digital LLC
Big Watt Digital LLC is a Delaware company, incorporated in 2021, that builds power generation and data center infrastructure for AI and previously ran Bitcoin mining.
Big West Conference
Big West Conference (formerly Pacific Coast Athletic Association), NCAA Division I conference founded July 1, 1969, headquartered in Irvine, California. 12 full members in 2026-27 after adding California Baptist, Sacramento State, and Utah Valley; Hawai'i departs 2026, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara leave for the WCC in 2027.
Bigamy
Bigamy: contracting a marriage while still legally married to another person; a crime in monogamy-recognizing countries, made felony by England's 1604 Act, a ground of annulment, and treated variously where personal law permits polygamy.
BigBasket
BigBasket is an Indian online grocery and quick-commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru, founded in 2011, majority-owned by Tata Digital, and valued at $3.2 billion in 2022.
Bigfoot
Bigfoot, or Sasquatch (from Halkomelem Sasq'ets), is a legendary eight-foot ape-like humanoid of North American forests. Originating in 1958 Bluff Creek footprint reports, it lacks verified evidence; a 2014 Oxford DNA study matched all tested hair samples to known mammals.
BigHat Biosciences
BigHat Biosciences is a San Mateo, California biotechnology company, founded in 2019 by Mark DePristo and Peyton Greenside, that combines machine learning with an automated wet lab to design antibody therapeutics.
BigoLive
BigoLive is a Singapore-based live-streaming app launched in March 2016 by BIGO Technology, where viewers send broadcasters cashable virtual gifts, and was fully acquired by JOYY in 2019.
Bihać Republic
The Bihać Republic (Bihaćka Republika) was a Partisan-libered territory in western Bosnia during World War II, centered on Bihać from November 1942 to January 1943.
Bihar al-Anwar (بحار الأنوار)
Bihar al-Anwar (بحار الأنوار) is an encyclopedic Arabic collection of Twelver Shia hadith compiled by Mohammad-Baqer Majlisi over more than 30 years, containing about 85,000 hadiths.
Bihar Legislative Assembly (बिहार विधान सभा)
Bihar Legislative Assembly (बिहार विधान सभा), Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is Bihar's 243-member lower house (38 SC, 2 ST seats). First responsible government 1937 under Shri Krishna Singh; NDA won 202 seats in the 2025 election.
Bihar Legislative Council
Bihar Legislative Council (बिहार विधान परिषद) is Bihar's 75-member upper house in Patna: 24 local authority, 27 MLA, 6 graduate, 6 teacher seats and 12 Governor-nominated members; founded 1913 at Bankipore, bicameral since 1936.
Bihar School Examination Board (बिहार विद्यालय परीक्षा समिति)
Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB, बिहार विद्यालय परीक्षा समिति), Bihar's state school examination body under the 1952 and 2019 Acts, conducts matric and intermediate exams, supplementary exams, and BBOSE open schooling tests.
Biharis
Biharis, also called Stranded Pakistanis, are Urdu-speaking Muslims who migrated from Bihar and other Indian states to East Pakistan at the 1947 partition; after 1971 most were confined to camps in Bangladesh, gained court-confirmed citizenship in 2008, and still face discrimination. The term also names the people of Bihar state and Grierson's Maithili-Magahi-Bhojpuri dialect group.
Bihzad
Kamal al-Din Bihzad (بهزاد) was a Persian master painter, born around 1455 in Herat, who worked under the Timurids and later headed the royal library at Tabriz.
Biito clan
The Biito (Babiito) are the Luo-origin royal clan of Bunyoro-Kitara and Tooro in western Uganda, named for the biito tree, founded by Isingoma Mpuga Rukidi, with about 27 kings ruling roughly 600 years.
Bijan Tehrani (entrepreneur)
Bijan Tehrani is an Australian-based entrepreneur who co-founded Stake.com, described by Forbes as the world's largest crypto casino, and the streaming platform Kick, from Melbourne.
Bijapur and Golconda partition of the Vijayanagara territories
The Bijapur and Golconda partition of the Vijayanagara territories, completed in 1650, divided eastern Tamilnadu between the two sultanates, ending the Aravidu successor state's remaining lands.